Why Are So Many Languages Spoken in Some Places and So Few in Others?
Is there a model that explains language diversity? How well does it work?
Alienating Kashmiris While Integrating (Annexing) Kashmir
India’s right-wing BJP is trying to to absorb Kashmir. But no one asked the Kashmiris. Shahid Jamal writes.
Free Thing of the Week: A Bowl for a Coin
We bring you tea, free. William Wayne Farris’s book covers the story of tea in Japan.
Happy Labor Day
Happy Labor Day from us at The Star.
Sunday Comics
In a Sunday drizzle on Cuban heels, I rowed down the gutter to the blood bank and I’d left all my Comics on the Ticonderoga and was in a bad need of a shave.
Stolen Fingerprints Could Spell the End of Biometric Security – Here’s How to Save It
Biometric security is the new thing, but there’s a serious problem with it: you only have ten fingers. Chaminda Hewage writes.
Paper Elephants
Fiction by Frankie Saxx.
Your City isn’t Changing Nearly As Fast As You Think
Even in Seattle and Austin, cities don’t change nearly as fast as people think. Daniel Herriges writes.
The Fascinating History of Boredom
Boredom has historically been an emotion both viewed as an enemy and embraced for its possibilities. Michelle Fu writes.
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